San Francisco sues Oakland over new airport name that includes 'San Francisco'
San Francisco has sued Oakland after officials there voted in favor of changing the name of the city’s airport to San Francisco Bay Oakland International Airport
At around 7:30 p.m on Saturday night., the eternal voice of Sylvester rang out from a dance floor on Folsom Street. It isn't unusual to hear the patron saint of San Francisco's disco scene on any given night out, but on this occasion, "Do You Wanna Funk?" served as an apt christening for the reopening of The Stud, one of the city's most iconic queer institutions where Sylvester himself had performed nearly five decades earlier. "It's very surreal," Stud co-owner Rachel Ryan told SFGATE on the...
Coming off the heels of its long-awaited grand reopening, the Stud is going even bigger. Think “hundreds of billboards” big. On May 4, the historic queer bar is hosting a party called Whatever, and the organizers are bringing in star power to commemorate the occasion. The guest of honor is a household name, one whose face is seared into millions of minds in the Bay Area and beyond. We’re talking, of course, about Anh Phoong. Although she’s based in Sacramento, the personal injury lawyer is an...
The 16-year-old billionaire heiress, whose mother founded Flickr and her father founded Slack, disappears into San Francisco's notorious Tenderloin drug district when police ask for help finding her - The heiress to a $1.6 billion tech fortune disappeared from her mother's home in wealthy Marin County, California, four days ago and is feared to be wandering the streets of one of San Francisco's most drug-ridden neighborhoods streaks. Mint Butterfield is the only child of two of Silicon...
Policing minister Chris Philp shocked the audience - who gasped and laughed as he repeatedly blundered in front of the camera.
Adam Schiff Robbed In San Francisco Via the Post Millennial, Democratic Congressman Adam Schiff’s luggage was stolen out of his parked car in a downtown San Francisco parking garage on Thursday. He later attended speaking event and dinner in a shirt and hiking vest. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, the left-wing Senate hopeful was at the event to thank high-profile lawyer Joe Cotchett for his support to replace the late Dianne Feinstein. The outlet reported...
Are we in the midst of a climate crisis? Broadly speaking, there are three answers to this question. Yes and we must decarbonize immediately. King Charles III delivered the keynote speech at the COP28 international climate conference organized by the United Nations last December. A confident and persuasive public speaker, Charles called for a “zero-carbon future”
Watch a 2-story houseboat drift across the San Francisco Bay. The boat was being towed to its new home after a legal battle that forced many houseboats to relocate. Out of context, this looks like a house that slid off the side of a cliff and got lost at sea. — Read the rest
There were no immediate reports of injuries following the collision near Tunnel 1.
The Rising crew sits down to discuss what questions people hate getting asked.
San Francisco officials acknowledge that traffic-related injuries and fatalities are far too common. And now they believe a crackdown on drivers parking illegally is one way to make the city’s streets safer. At Tuesday’s San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency meeting, SFMTA director Jeffrey Tumlin announced a plan to massively increase the number of citations that officers issue starting this month. The effort will happen in weeklong surges of “intensive enforcement” in the different...